Two Trees

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Susan Hawker paints landscapes in both oiland watercolour. Her way of painting has often led to comparisons with Cezanne. Like him, she uses painterly forms to construct a natural landscape, working to articulate underlying shapes and a fracturing of space. These techniques come together in Hawker’s landscapes as harmonious reflections of scenes from nature. As with this painting of two trees – rather than simply replicating the scene in front of her, Hawker conveys the visual effect of a place, or the way a viewer might receive a landscape, were they situated within it.

Susan Hawker was born in Surrey. She studied at the Surrey and then the Epson Schools of art before going on to the Royal College of Art. She was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society in 1975 and showed work in various group exhibitions at the Royal Academy and Camden Arts Centre. She also had solo exhibitions at Thackeray Gallery and Carlisle City Art Gallery.

Places

Subjects

landscape C20th, tree, hill

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Susan Hawker (1949 - )

Title

Two Trees

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 61.00 cm, width: 76.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Thackeray Gallery, February 1977

Inscription

Signed & inscribed verso

GAC number

12913